Raise the Stakes #25: Connecting Our Species: Planet Reports

Connecting Our Species: Planet Reports: Find out how local bioregional activities are becoming prevalent on a global scale. This issue includes a comprehensive interview with David Suzuki by Peter Berg on local grassroots activism, planetary and ecological awareness; reports from South of the Alps, Rhineland, Spain, Scotland, Japan, and the U.S.; a review of Stephanie Mills’ In Service of the Wild by Jim Dodge; Peter Berg on the role of bioregionalism in United Nations policy, and more. Also, Remembering Franco Beltrametti, Circles of Correspondence, Planet Drum PULSE, and bioregional directory updates.

Connecting Our Species: Planet Reports

Circles of Correspondence (Regional Reports)

• Dr. Paul Routledge, Glasgow Earth First!—Ecopolitics and the Free State: Scotland’s First Anti-Motorway Conflict
• Paul Glover—Creating Ecological Economics with Local Currency
• Gena VanCamp & Bob Glotzbach—Shasta Bioregional Gathering IV-Bridge to the Future
• Stephanie Mills—On The Watershed: The Sixth Great Lakes Bioregional Congress

Articles

• Thinking About the Biosphere and Getting Bioregional, Peter Berg interview with David Suzuki
• U.N. at 50: Time for A New Perspective, Peter Berg
• The Century of Bioregionalism, Santiago Vilanova, Catalonia
• Bioregion As A Unifying Vision, Inoue Yuichi
• Why the Moon Is Not on the Internet, Ken Rodgers
• Three Green City Glances at Japan, Peter Berg
• European Visit Fuels Bioregional Fervor, Peter Berg
• South of the Alps, Franco Beltrametti
• Remembering Franco Beltrametti, James Koller
• Remember Franco Beltrametti. Stefan Hyner
• Franco Beltrametti, A Sketch, Peter Berg
• Thoughts About the Rhine-Valley, Stefan Hyner

Poetry

• Caribouddhism, Gary Lawless
• Trickster Ayers Rock, Conrad Levasseur

Weaving Alliances
Changes/Corrections:

• Friends of Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore, Topanga, CA
• The Geonomy Society, Albion, CA
• Planet Drum Foundation, San Francisco, CA
• Santa Cruz Bioregional Institute, Boulder Creek, CA
• Kivaki Press, Durango, CO
• Way of the Mountain Center, Silverton, CO
• Mesechabe, New Orleans, LA
• Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, ME
• Harmonious Earth Research, Kihei, HI

New Listings:

Groups:

• Pacific Coast
  • Ecology Center, Berkeley, CA
  • Northcoast Environmental Center, Arcata, CA
  • Fossil Fuels Policy Action Institute/Alliance For A Paving Moratorium, Arcata, CA
• Pacific Mountains
  • Yuba Watershed Institute, Nevada City, CA
• Basin and Range
  • Environmental Action Report, Cottonwood, AZ
• Rocky Mountains
  • Bitteroot’s Mind on Clark’s Fork of the Columbia, Missoula, MT
• Great Plains
  • Crosstimbers (Oak Hickory Forest), Flower Mound, TX
• Great Lakes
  • Lake Calumet Study Committee, Chicago, IL
• Atlantic Mountains
  • Elfin Permaculture/Yankee Permaculture, Dahlonega, GA
• Atlantic Mountains
  • Living Education Center For Ecology & The Arts, Charlottesville, VA
• Europe
  • Gaia, Palombara, RM Italy

Individual:

• Mississippi River Valley
  • Dan Earle, Baton Rouge, LA

Announcements

• Jonathan Ellerby, Plea for Resources
• Otherwise, Otherwise: The Earth Pledge Foundation Book Review
• Kathy Wildman, Hearts and Flowers Butterfly Farm, Seeds Available to Educators
• Ishi & Sarah Crosby, Earth Village Network, Marses Earth Village
• Forest Tree Seed Company, Tree Seeds Available for Home Growing
• Giuseppe Moretti, Centro di Documentazione Bioregionale, International Cooperation Appeal
• Green Party, Puig Wins in Catalonia
• Spot the Difference! Green-Tourism
• Beatrice Briggs, Raise the Stakes #26, Bioregional Association Update, Turtle Island Bioregional Congress VII
• Planet Drum, Discovering Your Life-Place: A First Bioregional Workbook

Reviews: Riffs, Reads & Reels
Reads

Reviewed by Jim Dodge

• In Service of the Wild by Stephanie Mills

Reviewed by Seth Zuckerman

• Restoration Forestry: An International Guide to Sustainable Forestry Practices by Michael Pilarski

Reviewed by Carli Schultz

• The Way of the Earth: Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought by T.C. McLuhan

Reviewed by Hitomi Maeda

• Listening to the Land by Derrick Jensen

Reviewed by S. Dog

• Full House: Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity by Lester R. Brown & Hal Kane

Reviewed by Kari Norberg Carter

• Follow the Dirt Road: An Introduction to Intentional Communities in the 1990s by Monique Gauthier & Daniel Greenberg
• Communities Directory: A Guide to Cooperative Living by Fellowship for Intentional Community

Reviewed by Elizabeth Kristen

• Clean and Green: The Complete Guide to Nontoxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping by Annie Berthold-Bond

Planet Drum Pulse by Debbie Hubsmith
Stake Raisers and Planet Drum adventures in and out of the office.

Green City Report & Education + Action
Green City/urban sustainability & educational activities in the SF Bay Area.

Graphics

• Victor Vasques Temó, Harvesting and Growing Onions (front page)
• F. Phipps/CBS, David Suzuki (photo) (Thinking About the Biosphere…)
• D. Rengo, Consumer Equivalents (Thinking About the Biosphere…)
• Graphic: Population Consumerism Poverty (Thinking About the Biosphere…)
• Bruce McGillivray, Devolutionary Europe map (U.N. at 50: Time for A New Perspective)
• Making maps from machi-watching (Bioregion As A Unifying Vision)
• Peter Berg, “La Judy” Goldhaft in Catalonia (European Visit Fuels Bioregional Fervor)
• Judy Goldhaft, Peter Berg in Italy (European Visit Fuels Bioregional Fervor)
• Canton Ticino map (South of the Alps)
• Franco Beltrametti note to Peter & Judy (South of the Alps)
• Graphic: Vulture (South of the Alps)
• Graphic: Beltrametti-Koller Reading at New College (Remembering Franco Beltrametti)
• Graphic: Franco Beltrametti – Riva S.V. (South of the Alps)
• Rhine Valley (photo) (Thoughts About the Rhine-Valley)
• Location maps (Circles of Correspondence)
• Graphic: Ithaca dollar (Creating Ecological Economics with Local Currency)
• Shasta Bioregional Gathering logo (Shasta Bioregional Gathering IV)
• Great Lakes Bioregional Congress ’95 (On The Watershed: The Sixth Great Lakes Bioregional Congress)
• 2 Graphics (Weaving Alliances)
• Shafi Hakim, Planet Drum staff (photo)
• Graphic: Lorenzo ? (back cover)

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